Thank you. I am glad you have arrived upon the same realisation.

Oh, this is wild! Nothing.. everything! No thing. Ing.

It's like everything gets flipped around. Instead of a central, more real, me in the vastness, I am the vastness, and it is at the heart 'now'. But that 'now' is just a.. contrast word, because, joyfully.. always!! Already, always!! The heart is always the heart, the truth is always true!

I am the heart, the light

Don't worry. Insight shouldn't be judged by any peak experience. If you can listen to this and understand, your Self-inquiry is bearing fruit.

You are right, of course, that pain can be so overwhelming that such inquiry becomes impossible. But as a contemplation, there is something that this thought experiment can reveal. And that is that the person or subject taken to be the self, the one undergoing suffering, is itself an object within the world. A world that is completely subjective. In this extreme case, what sustains that subjective world? If consciousness is tied to the subject, shouldn't the sky be falling? When you as a dream character undergo a nightmare, You/Aware-ness at the same time remain as perfect and undisturbed as ever. The suffering is experienced, it is horrible, but somehow what is truly You remains unaffected. Rendering even this nightmare without fail. So, there is no need to somehow cultivate a mind that does not shriek and beg for mercy in this scenario. What is perfect remains perfect and cannot be perfected any further. And that is the Self.

When you have such insights/ experiences, you have to trust in them. They express Reality better than words ever can. This creator creates spontaneously, just by being present. You don't create experience or do anything in the usual sense of the word. All just happens simply because of your presence. And the happening of it is You/Awareness in action. This applies to all life anywhere, at any time. The centre and heart of every world.

That's just it. When you arrive upon the Truth, you know it's true. How else could it be! I'm glad this video made its way to you.

Gunas were just the model Nisargadatta sometimes used to talk about the fundamental forces of nature. To discuss such things I much prefer to use modern science. Nonduality is not at all incompatible with science, and there are many insights in piecing together how experience and science are pointing out the same Reality.

@@untangle-your-mind Wow.. OK, that was a surprising response! The fundamental forces of nature. OK, right, looking at the charts again, I can see what you mean, I think. Ha ha, perhaps the real meaning of the holy trinity!

And yes, I have got so much out of your scientific pointers. They 'close' a perceived gap, I've had so many moments of being stopped in my mental tracks for a while while listening to them. That's an inadequate description.. yes the mind was still, but that's not a good way to describe that sense of awe and joy, that feeling that there is nowhere to go. Thanks for that reply, cos I feel that quiet joy again! Nowhere to go, just here.

The misery is often as palpable as the day I saw that stray puppy. The peace is in what unites and underlies all lives. Losing the concept of "me" and "others" the mind is free to love and can do more good than it has ever done in this life.

However subtle the form, it is still among the phenomena being perceived. But Awareness itself cannot be perceived. You only know of Awareness by being aware. By being the Aware-ness. When the intellect tries to picture this, it objectifies Awareness as a field in space and time. But Awareness is in fact the expanse in which even space and time appear. To the intellect this is'nothing', 'void', 'emptiness'. But that is only because the phenomenon cannot know the Noumenon.

@@untangle-your-mind 💗💗 Thank you.

I do not. I'm not sure I have anything to teach. Just feel like whispering a few secrets here at the moment :)

@@untangle-your-mind thank you, I am enjoying it anyways …

I think it would be good to meditate with you

Ah, but can there even be such a thing as group meditation? ;)

@@untangle-your-mind Ha ha! No, yet it would somehow manage to be really fun anyway, or so I imagine!

Haha! Dreams have a way of doing that. But still, just the fact that there was light in the dream is enough. What is the source of that light?

Haha! Whatever is seen or felt is always Consciousness itself. I'm glad you had that lightbulb moment.

The Essence of the Mind is pure and cannot be purified any further. The thought of attaining enlightenment is in direct opposition to this realisation. So it is said to leave aside all conceptual thinking and just be still.

Thank you. "Be still" seems to be key, right! 👍👍